Books for Fans of “Sea of Tranquility”

In a post-Arthurian Britain where mass amnesia has swept across the population, an elderly couple sets off to visit their long-estranged son. But their journey will be fraught with danger—both from the land they traverse and from the troubled past they have yet to recall. A haunting meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory from Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro.

Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction. Willis Wu has spent his life in the background—merely Generic Asian Man. But when he suddenly finds himself in the spotlight as Kung-Fu Guy, he’s forced to confront the secret history of Chinatown and the legacy of his own family. A deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play.

A first-year college student in a small California town stumbles into her dorm room, falls asleep—and doesn’t wake up. Soon, the entire town is beset by a mysterious illness that triggers perpetual sleep and seemingly heightened dreams. The Dreamers is a dazzling novel from the best-selling author of The Age of Miracles about the possibilities contained within a human life—if only we are awakened to them.

From the national best-selling author: Hig somehow survived the flu pandemic that killed everyone he knows. Now he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, Jasper, and a mercurial, gun-toting misanthrope named Bangley. But when a random transmission beams through the radio of his 1956 Cessna, the voice ignites a hope deep inside him that a better life exists outside their tightly controlled perimeter.

What do you do when you’re heartbroken and have a time machine? Something stupid. Or at least that’s what Tom does when he launches himself out of a peaceful, technologically advanced 2016 into an alternate reality (ours) after a bad break-up. Now he’ll have to travel across continents and timelines to figure out, finally, who he really is and what his—and our—future is supposed to be.

John Dominic Blaxton lives in a fantasy world—an immersive reconstruction of a since-destroyed Pittsburgh, filled with the people who once lived there—including his wife and unborn child. When he’s not reliving his time with his wife, he’s hunting down mysterious deaths in the Archive. Only his latest cold case is leading him on a path that could risk his sanity and his very existence. “A near-future cyberpunk thriller in the tradition of William Gibson and Bruce Sterling.”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The breath-taking #1 national best seller from the author of The Starless Sea. The circus arrives without warning. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway: a duel between two young magicians, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose, in which only one can be left standing.